What Does 1 Chronicles 2:15 Mean?
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:THE KEY
The list counts David as seventh while his name carries the sense “beloved,” holding position and nature together.
THE MEANING
You can be counted in an order while your name carries a nature a number cannot measure; David is seventh, and his name means “beloved.” The verse holds place and nature side by side.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
My rank in the order tells the whole truth of my worth.
THE ROOT
דָּוִד
Dāwîḏ
GROWS FROM
דוד
d-w-d
Beloved; the same root also carries the sense of love or affection.
The name David shares its consonants with dōd, “beloved,” and dōdîm, “loves” or “expressions of love.” The list places him numerically, while the name carries a relational sense the count itself cannot express.
ALSO GROWS
dōd: Beloved; also a kinship term for uncle.
דּוֹד
The name David echoes this word, placing the sense of belovedness beside his counted position.
dōdîm: Loves or expressions of love.
דּוֹדִים
The same consonants extend into language for affection, revealing a relational dimension within the name.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets names carry a nature that the surrounding words make visible.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And he led him to Jesus. And Jesus, fixing his gaze on him, said, You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas, the rock.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.THE THREAD
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers, and the breath of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.The same name appears here as David is anointed among his brothers. The genealogy counts his place in the family; this scene shows the counted son within that family, with his name’s sense of “beloved” beside it.
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